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title: "Corrugated Coral"
description: "Pavona varians — Andere dieren. Pavona varians, also known by its common name corrugated coral, is a species from the genus Pavona."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/corrugated-coral
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Corrugated Coral

> Pavona varians — Andere dieren. Pavona varians, also known by its common name corrugated coral, is a species from the genus Pavona.

- Scientific name: *Pavona varians*
- Category: `other` (Andere dieren)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 1063
- Wikidata: [Q3943118](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3943118)
- iNaturalist taxon: [108983](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/108983)

## Names

- en: Corrugated Coral

## Countries with the most observations

US (150), ID (97), GU (51), FJ (34), TH (24), MP (18), PF (18), NC (17), TZ (17), EC (16), SC (16), MV (15)

## Summary

Pavona varians, also known by its common name corrugated coral, is a species from the genus Pavona. Pavona varians is a type of hermatypic coral commonly distributed across tropic environments. Distribution of the coral include the equatorial Indian and Pacific Ocean, and notably, not found in the Atlantic Ocean. Pavona varians  have also been found to be distributed as North as the sea of Japan, in the Red Sea, and islands off the Pacific coast of Columbia and Costa Rica. Pavona varians are typically found an average of 45 feet below water on vertical surfaces in turbid, nutrient rich, water. Specifically, Pavona…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavona_varians

## Photo

![Corrugated Coral](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/corrugated-coral/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/235861426

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/corrugated-coral?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).